Our current plans are for ME to dress as "Michael Moore..."Since there is not much demand for a REAL "Michael Moore" costume, I have had to improvise. :o)
Here is the BODY, from www.cabalofdoom.com and www.hollywoodtoys.com:
Posted on 02/19/2005 7:06:36 AM PST by RonDog
But if its the 'themes' or stories you don't care for then it's up to 'conservatives' to make their own movies, instead of trying to restrict what 'liberals' make...Bingo!
Let the free market rule!Just as talk radio and the Internet have made "gatekeepers" in the 'Old MEDIA' more and more irrelevant...
...dramatic advances in film-making technology (and the resulting SUBSTANTIALLY lower costs of production) will soon make 'Old HOLLYWOOD' no more than a bad memory. :o)Check out this thread about the WONDERFUL conservative movies screened a few months ago -- right here in the "belly of the beast."
Ann Coulter, Protest Warriors, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan, and Iraq:
...at the first annual LIBERTY FILM FESTIVAL in HOLLYWOOD! (Oct. 1-3, 2004)Hollywood's first CONSERVATIVE film festival:
www.LibertyFilmFestival.com
Please note that I am not blaming Clinton. Actually, I never paid much attention to the folks who ran film studios previous to the Clinton years. I simply want an explanation for the last few years of movies, and the most logical explanation I can come up with is that the lag time for production had to come as a result of those who came to power in film making during the 1990s, which happen to be the Clinton years. That his Presidency led the way in moral decline only served to exascerbate the situaion.
I have voted with my dollars for at least a year now, and don't go: something I have never done before. Wanting to see a movie without having to worry about quality is rare in my book. I am to the point of refusing to quietly sit by while media shoves ideology down my throat.
As for conservative moviemakers, it would seem that the making of The Passion of the Christ is a good example of both the refusal to portray religion positively, as well as the academy's refusal to recognize anything but its technical effects, etc.
Having a few, good conservative films in a field flooded with films from a pit of vice would not be a bad idea. One of the qualities of Constantine, for example, that I liked was the recognition that there IS good and that it is worthwhile, and, worth fighting for.
Bumping for the best West Coast FReep this year....
Being a member of the Academy and the Writers Guild, I have to watch just about every movie made in a year. Believe me, the 80's were child's play next to the cesspool generated in the 90's.
IMO, this is the most egregious activity in La La Land-----proselytizing audiences without their knowledge or consent.
Hollywarped better get the message----we, the people, have had it with it's endless brainwashing of audiences into Christian-hating and American-hating, without audiences' knowledge or consent. Hollywarped has willfully chipped away at Western civilzation under the guise of "artistic expression."
Follywood firmly believes that 24/7 of their sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music are not harming kids and the culture.
OTOH, Hollywarped also believes----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars.
They can't have it both ways.
The Moral Relativist Shock Troops better mend their ways. The usual suspects include: abortion-worshipping Feminazis, the fully fornicating Playboy-Cosmo faction, secular humanists who despise Christians, the ACLU-Christian baiters,Planned Parenthood and the population control cabal, and the gay-transgender anti-family element.
All of them aided and abetted by a compliant liberal media and agenda-driven academia inculcating the Nation's youth with the Hollywarped liberal idealogy.
We have had it with this Secular Taliban.
Follywood better live with it.
I don't understand the big deal about it, I like the ultra violence IF it's done with a good story line. I came of age in the late 80s, early 90s. I choose to watch films that don't have the 50s style wholesome storylines with and woefully predictable endings. The 90s were chuck full of Disney films and family movies that had those elements - and they were rewarded in boxoffice revenue for producing them. If people like family movies, they should be allowed to watch them. Likewise, If I want to see Shawn of the Dead - I should be able to watch it in its all its immoral glory without some moralistic pinhead trying to tamper with it before it gets a chance to hit the screen. Let the market make the decisions.
45 posted on 02/19/2005 4:54:12 PM CST by LizWell Said!
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Our current plans are for ME to dress as "Michael Moore..."Since there is not much demand for a REAL "Michael Moore" costume, I have had to improvise. :o)
Here is the BODY, from www.cabalofdoom.com and www.hollywoodtoys.com:
I just need to trim the mustache...
...and add a baseball hat, a scraggly beard, and some wire-rim glasses. :o)
Our current plans are for ME to dress as "Michael Moore..."And, lest anyone think tha I am obsessing about this lowlife scum...
...see THIS thoughtful analysis of this year's Academy awards...by Liberty Film Festival co-founder, Govindini Murty -- as posted on www.newsmax.com:
Oscar Nominations Play it SafeGovindini MurtyThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose to shut out "The Passion" from all the major nominations. "The Passion" was awarded nominations for Cinematography, Music (Score), and Makeup, but in the most important categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay - and in all the acting categories - the movie was completely ignored.
Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2005
Instead, the Academy chose to reward such artistically safe films as "The Aviator" with eleven nominations, "Million Dollar Baby" with seven nominations, "Finding Neverland" with seven nominations, "Ray" with six nominations, and "Sideways" with five nominations. "The Incredibles," a film popular with conservatives because of its intelligence and apparent Ayn Randian themes, received four nominations. The extraordinary Chinese masterpiece "Hero" was ignored, and its follow-up "The House of Flying Daggers" received only one nomination.
Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" - a film that was mendacious and morally reprehensible, but also one of the boldest films of the year - received no nominations. Slain Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh's "Submission" did not receive any nominations.
By all but ignoring "The Passion," and completely ignoring "Hero," "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Submission" the Academy lost the chance to actually be of significance this year.
These films were either the artistically most accomplished and original - or the most controversial and impactful - of the year. The films that were nominated for Best Picture - "The Aviator," "Finding Neverland," "Million Dollar Baby," "Sideways," and "Ray" were all films that artistically played it safe. None of them had the impact of "The Passion," generated the controversy of "Fahrenheit 9/11," were as daring as "Submission," or as visually stunning and profound as "Hero."
For the most part, the Best Picture nominees were handsomely mounted, tastefully executed mediocrities that will be forgotten within a year. The film industry claims to seek artistically daring, personal films - of the sort that were last produced in the 70's - but when these films are produced at great effort and personal cost by such artists as Mel Gibson, Zhang Yimou, and Theo Van Gogh - the film industry ignores them.
Giving "The Passion" only three nominations in the categories of Cinematography, Music (Score) and Makeup (as many nominations as the comic-book movie "Spiderman 2," the lugubrious musical "The Phantom of the Opera," and the abortion film "Vera Drake") certainly reveals a strange set of priorities on the part of the film industry. Years from now, the public probably will not recall that the most memorable aspect of "The Passion" was its makeup or its music. What the public will remember is Mel Gibson's bold and deeply personal conception of the film, the excellent writing, editing and art direction - and most of all, the powerful acting of Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Monica Bellucci and Hristo Shopov. These film artists took great risks, suffered for their work (literally, in the case of Jim Caviezel), and achieved a depth and profundity rarely seen in film.
Years from now, history will remember 2004 as a banner year for film, when such movies as "The Passion," "Hero," "Submission," and "The Incredibles" showed that there were filmmakers willing to turn aside from twenty-five years of liberal mediocrity and embrace creativity and individuality.
The public will remember films that actually addressed themes otherwise ignored by Hollywood - religious faith, heroism, self-sacrifice, the importance of the individual, and belief in marriage and family.
They will remember that "Fahrenheit 9/11," for all its distortions and lies, was still the only film that actually addressed September 11th and the War on Terror. The public will remember these films, filmmakers will be either inspired or provoked to follow in their footsteps, and the art-form of the cinema will be the better for it. Too bad the Academy, an institution founded at Hollywood's birth to celebrate its highest achievements, couldn't have played a role in defining that legacy.
Govindini Murty is the Co-Director of the Liberty Film Festival.
Liberty Film Festival co-founder, Govindini MurtySee also, from:
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Posted on 02/03/2005 6:07:18 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s
Govindini Murty
And, on the REVERSE side of that sign, I plan to have THIS message:
"Shawn of the Dead" is a cute, micro-budget, cult movie that no one would miss if it hadn't been made. Unlike "Ben-Hur", "Last of the Mohicans" or "The Wizard of Oz".
...in addition to bringing AMERICAN FLAGS, you might consider...See, for example, THIS ten-year-old girl's tribute to the brave Iraqi voters......wearing BLUE FINGERS, like these people:
...from www.billingsgazette.com:
JAMES WOODCOCK/Gazette Staff
Shelby Dangerfield, 10, is displaying her solidarity with the Iraqi voters by painting her finger blue as a representation of the voters fingers marked for the elections.
you might consider wearing BLUE FINGERS...The MESSAGE, of course, is:
"If we had listened to the Hollywood leftists......Iraq would not now be free."
"Years from now, history will remember 2004 as a banner year for film, when such movies as "The Passion," "Hero," "Submission," and "The Incredibles" showed that there were filmmakers willing to turn aside from twenty-five years of liberal mediocrity and embrace creativity and individuality." - Govindini MurtyOther sign ideas might address the lack of "Passion" in this year's Academy Awards, like THIS:
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